July 26, 2003

The New York Times looks at attempts by various suitors to buy Vivendi Universal’s entertainment assets which include Universal Studios, USA Networks, the SciFi Channel, and Vivendi Universal Games which has computer gaming assets such as Blizzard and Sierra Studios. Its television studio owns the Law & Order series. The largest offer so far is from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, at $11.5 billion which is much less than the $15 billion that Vivendi Universal’s chairman Jean-René Fourtou wants. Unfortunately for Vivendi The value of the computer gaming assets recently took a hit when four members of the team that produced Diablo and Diablo 2 left. Uncertainly around a possible sale of Blizzard was one of the reasons cited for the move. In other news I finished Diablo 2 on the normal difficulty level playing Worf, a barbarian. 8:56:18 PM